MEDIA APPEARANCES and ENDORSEMENTS

A searingly honest story of one woman’s awakening from a coma after her baby’s birth—and her long road back…Unforgettable.”

— Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer

Brilliant and renewing. A spectacular work of reflection, remembering, reconciling, and recovering. Memoir writing at its finest.

— Patricia Raybon, author of My First White Friend and I Told the Mountain to Move

A lyrical, stunning tale of one woman’s return to life. A laughing, weeping story of a family finding their way back home 

— Claire Díaz-Ortiz leads social innovation at Twitter, Inc.

“Be careful picking up The Long Awakening because you may be unable to put it down. This is a moving, intimate story, arrestingly written, that glimmers with a keen understand of what matters.”

— John Biewen, audio program director at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and editor of Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound

Good things often happen when a great story meets a talented storyteller. But Lindsey O’Connor’s grasp of literary journalism gives this personal narrative much more substance than the typical memoir. Strong reporting places her experience in larger contexts that add depth and understanding. A true story in the deepest sense of the word.”